About The Word Domestic
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Domestic
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What's The Definition Of Domestic?
[n] a household servant
[adj] produced in a particular country; "domestic wine"; "domestic oil" [adj] of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation; "domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction" [adj] of or involving the home or family; "domestic worries"; "domestic happiness"; "they share the domestic chores"; "everything sounded very peaceful and domestic"; "an author of blood-and-thunder novels yet quite domestic in his taste" [adj] converted or adapted to domestic use; "domestic animals"; "domesticated plants like maize" [adj] of or relating to the home; "domestic servant"; "domestic science" Synonyms | Synonyms for Domestic: domestic help | domesticated | home(a) | home-loving | home-style | house servant | household | housewifely | husbandly | interior(a) | internal | municipal | national | native | tame | tamed Related Terms | Find terms related to Domestic: anchoritic | autochthonous | cloistered | domal | domestic servant | domesticated | domiciliary | drudge | eremitic | family | help | hermitic | hermitish | hired help | home | household | housekeeper | indigenous | inland | internal | intestine | manorial | mansional | menial | municipal | national | native | palatial | private | recluse | residential | residentiary | scullion | sequestered | servant | servitor | shut in | shut up | slavey | stay-at-home | steward | subdued | submissive | tame | turnspit See Also | amah | ayah | home help | housekeeper | housemaid | maid | maidservant | retainer | servant | skivvy | slavey Domestic In Webster's Dictionary \Do*mes"tic\, a. [L. domesticus, fr. domus use: cf. F.
domestique. See 1st {Dome}.]
1. Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's
household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic
concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship,
servants.
His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his
domestic feelings were unusually strong. --Macaulay.
4. Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or
home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as,
foreign wars and domestic dissensions. --Shak.
3. Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or
pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.
4. Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated;
tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.
5. Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic
manufactures, wines, etc.
\Do*mes"tic\, n. 1. One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant. The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic. --V. Knox. 2. pl. (Com.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. [U. S.] |
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